Remove “Powered by WordPress” from your footer
A free plugin adds a chat to your WP dashboard. Type “Take the credit out of my footer.” See the new footer first, press the button, undo in one click.
Works on block themes: you'll see Appearance › Editor in your dashboard. How to tell
- Nothing changes without your OK
- Undo in one click, or a warning first
- No account, no password to share
Needs WP 6.3 to 7.1, PHP 8.0 or newer, and an administrator login. One site per install.
The download is a plugin. Turning it on connects your site to cmshands.com and adds 3 small rescue files. Deleting the plugin removes them and everything it stored. What we send
Take “Designed with WordPress” out of my footer and put our name there.
Watch it do this on a real site
You ask
Our test site's footer ended with “Designed with WordPress”, the credit its theme ships with. The owner typed this into the chat in the WP dashboard, in plain words.
Take “Designed with WordPress” out of my footer and put our name there.
You see it first
It checked the theme, read the footer and came back with a card 22 seconds later. Its After view shows the footer as it would look: Quillmoor Pottery bottom right, where the credit was. Now shows the footer as it is, and Code shows the one line it swaps. Nothing has changed yet.
Ready for you to review.
- 1 secondLooking at your themes
- 3 secondsReading your footer
- 6 secondsPreparing the change for your OK
- Previewing your footer
On a phone too
The same card shows the new footer on a phone. Before anything changed, it pointed out a catch: the copyright line already says Quillmoor Pottery, so on a narrow screen the name shows twice.
One thing the pictures show: on a phone the name now appears twice on the same line — the copyright line and the new one sit side by side.
You press the button
Only now does the footer change. It swaps the credit for the name, reads the footer back to check, and the card turns green with an Undo link. The run took 37 seconds in all; for 14 of them the card sat waiting for us to press.
- 37 secondsChanging your footer
- Checking the change
It's on the site
The right-hand end of the test site's footer right after, as a visitor sees it. Bottom right: Quillmoor Pottery, where “Designed with WordPress” used to be. Every page shares this footer.
Done. I checked afterwards, and it now says "Quillmoor Pottery".
Undo, if you want
We pressed Undo to leave the test site as it was. The credit came back, link and all. It checked the footer again and showed what it put back.
Undone. I checked afterwards, and it's back the way it was.
- 45 secondsReverting the change
- Checking the change
A real run on our test site, Quillmoor Pottery (WP 7.1.3, Twenty Twenty-Four), Oct 11, 2026. From asking to done, it took 37 seconds.
That's the whole job. The plugin is free: 3 changes to try it, no account. Nothing changes until you press the button.
Needs WP 6.3 to 7.1, PHP 8.0 or newer, and an administrator login. One site per install.
The download is a plugin. Turning it on connects your site to cmshands.com and adds 3 small rescue files. Deleting the plugin removes them and everything it stored. What we send
How to remove “Powered by WordPress” yourself
Checked on WP 7.1, Oct 11, 2026
1. Open Appearance › Editor in your dashboard. If Appearance has Customize but no Editor, your theme is a classic one: read the note below.
2. The Editor opens with a dark menu down the left side. Click Patterns there.
3. Pick Footer from the list. A small picture of your footer appears: click it, and the footer opens with the credit at its foot.
4. Click the credit line once. Depending on your theme, it says “Designed with WordPress” or “Proudly powered by WordPress”.
5. Select its words and type your business name. To take the line out instead, press ⋮ on its toolbar and choose Delete.
6. Press the blue Save button at the top right. Then open your site in a new tab: the credit is gone wherever this footer shows.
Only Appearance › Customize, no Editor? Then your theme is an older (classic) one. Open Customize and look for a Footer or Copyright section where the credit can be changed or cleared. Many themes have none, because the credit is written into the theme's own files. CMSHands can't change those yet.
On most block themes every page uses the same footer, so the credit leaves them all at once. If your copyright line already shows your business name, putting the name in the credit's spot shows it twice. In our test run the assistant spotted that in the phone picture, before anything changed. You could delete the line instead, or put your town or phone number there.
What it won't do here
Older (classic) themes
Theme settings screens and widgets
A credit in a page-builder footer
A logo where the credit was
Why it won't wreck your site
Nothing changes until you press the button.
You see it first.
One click undoes it.
Free to start
| No account | With your email | Paid plan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Changes | 3 to try it | 10 every month | Coming. Nothing costs money until you choose it. |
| Questions | 30 a day | 100 a day | |
| If it breaks | Daily check and crash rescue | The same, plus email alerts |
Undo a change within 24 hours and it doesn't count. If you haven't added an email after 30 days, only crash rescue stays on until you add one. A change is one card you approve. A job that touches several pages or plugins is several changes.
Questions
How do I remove “Powered by WordPress” from my footer?
On a block theme, go to Appearance › Editor › Patterns › Footer and open the footer. Click the credit line, delete it or type your own words over it, and press Save. On an older theme, look for a footer setting in Appearance › Customize. If there isn't one, the line sits in the theme's files. The steps above show every screen.
Where does “Proudly powered by WordPress” come from?
Your theme puts it there. It's a thank-you line in the footer, the piece every page shares. Older default themes such as Twenty Twenty-Three say “Proudly powered by WordPress”. Twenty Twenty-Four and Twenty Twenty-Five say “Designed with WordPress” instead. Whatever the words, it's one line in one place, so you remove it once for the whole site.
Is it OK to remove the WordPress credit?
Yes. The credit is a thank-you line, not a rule, and the Site Editor lets you change it like any other text in your footer. If you paid for your theme, it may come with its own terms, so check them first.
Can I get the credit back later?
Yes. In WP, follow steps 1 to 6 again and type the old line back in. With CMSHands, press Undo on the card. In our test run it put the credit back word for word, link and all, and the assistant said: “Undone. I checked afterwards, and it's back the way it was.”
Is it free?
To start, yes: 3 changes with no account, then 10 a month once you add your email. Questions are free, up to 30 a day.
Written by CMSHands team.
Try it on your own footer
Needs WP 6.3 to 7.1, PHP 8.0 or newer, and an administrator login. One site per install.
The download is a plugin. Turning it on connects your site to cmshands.com and adds 3 small rescue files. Deleting the plugin removes them and everything it stored. What we send
Download the plugin.
It's free: 3 changes to try it. No account, no card.
Upload and activate it.
In your dashboard: Plugins › Add Plugin › Upload Plugin (Add New Plugin on older WP). Choose the file, press Install Now, then Activate Plugin.
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